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Marie Eugène François Thomas Dubois

(28 Jan 1858 - 16 Dec 1940)

Dutch palaeoanthropologist and anatomist.

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The Javanese Anthropopithecus, which in its skull is more human than any other known anthropoid ape, already had an upright, erect posture, which has always been considered to be the exclusive privilege of humans. Thus this ancient

— Marie Eugène François Thomas Dubois

Report of 1892, quoted in Pat Shipman, The Man Who Found the Missing Link: The Extraordinary Life of Eugene Dubois (2001), 186.

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